Affordability and Choice Today (ACT)

Affordability and Choice Today (ACT) encourages regulatory reform in Canadian municipalities that leads to greater housing affordability, choice and quality. Since 1990, ACT projects have provided solutions and lessons learned that contribute to advancing sustainable development through alternative development standards, design guidelines, infill housing, secondary suites, conversion of office buildings to residential and more.

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Going into debt a risky proposition

Science Matters by David Suzuki
Most of us are all too aware of what it?s like to live in financial debt, but what about ecological debt?
On October 9th, according to the Global Footprint Network, humanity went into ecological debt for the year, where demand for resources and the production of waste outpaced the planet?s capacity to produce new resources and absorb those wastes. In other words, we ceased to live off the ecological services provided by the planet and started consuming the ecosystems themselves.

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Greenhouse Gas Emitters Exposed

Canadians can rank greenhouse gas-emitting facilities by province, company, facility and postal code
TORONTO, Oct. 11 /CNW/ – As the federal government rolls out its clean air and climate change package, Environmental Defence and the Canadian Environmental Law Association have released the most comprehensive publicly accessible online ranking and tracking of large industrial greenhouse gas emitters across Canada. Greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, contribute to global climate change.

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Canadian Chamber and Pollution Probe release new Guide to Climate Change for Small- to Medium-sized Enterprises

OTTAWA, Oct. 12 /CNW Telbec/ – The Canadian Chamber of Commerce and Pollution Probe have partnered to produce a Guide to Climate Change for Small-to Medium-sized Enterprises. The guide helps Canadian businesses understand the potential impacts of climate change and establish measures and processes to manage the risks and opportunities posed by climate change.

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Ocean life makes waves

Most people have heard of the ?butterfly effect? ? the idea that a small change, such as a butterfly flapping its wings in one part of the world, can set in motion a series of events that leads to a big event, such as a tornado, somewhere else. The term is largely used as a metaphor, but science now shows that there?s a literal aspect to the theory that has much broader implications.

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